The Witcher 3 Game Designer On Witcher 1&2 Ports, Xbox One Performance, PS4 Quality and DX12

With the Witcher 3: Wild Hunt releasing in less than 2 months a lot of fans are getting more and more excited. Over the year there have been a lot of questions regarding the performance of the game on both the Xbox One and PS4.

On Twitter Game designer Damien Monnier has spoken out regarding the performance on the Xbox One, PS4 compared to PC and also had something to say about DX12 optimization.

Wait, people were making a huge deal about PC gamers (only a tiny minority of PC gamers actually) "begging" for Bloodborne, but I constantly see Playstation gamers "begging" for The Witcher and The Witcher 2 to come to the PS4.

Just to be clear, I don't think there is anything wrong with wanting good games to come to the platform you own or prefer. I just find the double standards on this site a little disconcerting at times.

@starchild What made you bring that point up about PS gamer's begging for Witcher ports? Neither of the above posters mentioned bringing ports over to the PS4 specifically. For all we know they could have meant Xbox One.

For one thing the Witcher 2 already released on the 360 so Xbox gamers already had a chance to play that game. Secondly, most of the time I see someone "begging" for the first two Witcher games it's usually Sony fans.

@MysticStrummer

I knew somebody was going to try and use that excuse.

The hypocrisy I am talking about belongs to each and every person on this site who heaped abuse on PC gamers for the fact that some few PC gamers signed a silly petition to ask for Bloodborne to come to the PC.

If you didn't take part in those articles or say those things against PC gamers then, no, you personally are not guilty of hypocrisy in this instance. But hundreds of frequent posters did take part in those comments and THEY most certainly are hypocrites. Anybody that has spent time on any game site would know that asking for games to come to a preferred platform is not in any way exclusive to PC gamers.

Well I don't think I abused any PC gamers so I guess I'm not a hypocrite (in this case) but my take is those games (The Witcher) were made by 3rd party devs who are bringing the latest game to PS4 and xbox a well as pc, and remasters are all the rage, so asking or "begging" whatever the case may be for a current gen version is not a terrible thing, especially considering PlayStation gamers might have missed it on them last gen and want to get the back story.

In the case of Bloodborne, it's co-developed by Sony, published by Sony, and owned by Sony. I believe that's what they call a 2nd party game, but i could be wrong. Point is, it's not going anywhere Sony doesn't want it to, and currently Sony wants to sell PS4s which I think is understandable and reasonable.

Finally, did you actually read some of the comments on the petition? I don't think it was that upsetting that they signed it, but some of the comments were down right nasty. Blaming Sony for buying the game so others couldn't play it, (that's not what happened) calling From Software sellouts (again, do people even know how Demon Souls first got made?)

It was pretty ugly and if some of those guys got called out by people in here for acting like children then I'm sorry but I feel no sympathy. Especially when they don't seem to know how this game got made in the first place, and Demon Souls was exactly the same. From is basically a hired gun. They were hired to do a job and they did it admirably. Should they get crap from PC gamers and should Sony for making the game happen just because they don't have PS4s?

Blood bourne was funded and published by Sony however the witcher 3 wasn't funded by Nvidia, Intel,AMD,Gigabite,Asus, CoolMaster or any PC/component producing company therefore it is reasonable to expect witcher 3 to be availble on xbox1/ps4

So PS4 and XBO are the same graphically apart from a slight resolution difference. Good to know. I wonder if XBO will reach 1080p by launch day or if they will patch it in later. I suspect any dx12 support patches after launch for this game will be PC only.

That would be cool :) I suspect they are having issues with xbo version resolution due to limitations with dx11 and the not so good eSRAM api currently in use. Its a shame dx12 and the new eSRAM api is coming too late for this game but from what i have seen its going to be an amazing game and looks great either way whether its 900p or 1080p.

Edit @ Slasaru01 what are you talking about?? Links?? I haven't head that at all and from what Damien Monnier just tweeted he said ps4 and xbo versions are the same apart from resolution.

This is not that scale dev, they just don't have resources to optimize with DX12. So it will be the same, no patches.

And there are journalists impressions saying that Xbox one looks severely downgraded, that is, no AA and no effects. So even resolutions bump would not help unless the game created on DX12 from the scratch

Thats good! I wonder if the X1 version has the same settings as well? He states that the resolution is the difference really, so I wonder if we will get the same as PS4 settings but at 900p instead of 1080p? I know most multiplats with a lower resolution on X1 vs PS4 usually have the same graphical effects.

1. A fraction less than 35000 signatures so far and thats just the petition ALONE. There are MILLIONS of PC gamers without a PS4 who are begging for this hot exclusive everywhere on the internet, but you'll pretend to be oblivious about it, of course. Change.org is not the endgame for pc gamers portbegging, THAT is (by your words) "a tiny minority" of the PC portbeggers found on the internet.

The first few lines of that petition -

"Everyone should be able to play your game. It is not fair that we are left out. You have betrayed us after releasing your last two games on PC."

2. This is the disingenuous mentality of ALL pc gamers begging for Bloodborne or ANY exclusive for that matter from any of the big 3 console manufacturers. Being disingenuous about the product and pretending someone else owns it. The "You have betrayed us after releasing YOUR last two games on PC." See what these disillusioned kids did there ? The last two games on pc by From Software are Dark Souls and Dark Souls II. Why not ask for Demon's Souls ? No ? That was by From as well. The difference here is the "YOUR GAME" must be pointed to Sony Computer Entertainment, as THEY OWN BLOODBORNE, same as Demon's Souls (all of you should be thankful to SONY for kickstarting the Souls games for starters), Mario Kart, Zelda, Halo, Gears, Forza and the list goes on. You shouldn't be begging to From Software, you should be begging to SONY, who owns Bloodborne, though it won't happen in a million years because SONY and NINTENDO are not MSFT to release their IP's on pc to promote an OS like Win10, like they did with Halo 2 Vista. SONY/Nintendo don't give the tiniest shit about pc gaming.

Another thing to note is that SCE Japan developed the game with some key individuals like Miyazaki and a few others at From Software working on this. Not the entire team. They were working on Dark Souls II. The best bet pc can have would be Dark Souls III which is currently under development. If that ends up exclusive then LMAO. Now you're gonna pretend that you don't know what first party exclusivity means.

3. Coming to The Witcher games now, the IP of The Witcher is owned by CD Projekt Red who are game developers. The money being paid from the consumer for every copy of a game goes directly to them. The Witcher and The Witcher 2 are NOT pc games with an exclusive tag hanging above their heads, it is until the multiplatform game developers, CD Projekt Red, allows it to be. THEY choose whether to port it to PS4/X1 or not, which they most probably will after The Witcher 3's release. Not the pc gamers (LOL). If PlayStation & Xbox fans demand The Witcher and The WItcher 2 ports, CDPR will do it because they released "THEIR" game sequel and they don't owe anything to pc gamers.

How about getting a PC instead of begging them to port over PC games? On PC we don't beg them to update or remake old games because we can still play them all fine, anyway the mechanics of the original Witcher would not translate well to a controller.